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Researcher · Founder
Brian Ichter
Physical IntelligenceCo-founder
Career & education
Current rolePhysical Intelligence2024-presentCo-founder
Physical Intelligence2024-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2023-2024Research Scientist
Google Brain2018-2023Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2023-2024Google Brain2018-2023Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations75,805As of Aug 8, '26
citations+7,193Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
With Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Fei Xia, Ed H. Chi, Quoc V. Le and others ·Showed that examples with reasoning steps can help language models solve harder problems.
References
- SayCan: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordancessay-can.github.io
The SayCan project credits Ichter as a co-author and shows how the system turns a request into actions a robot can perform.
- Brian Ichter’s researchbrianichter.com
Ichter describes his work on general-purpose robot learning and identifies himself as a co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
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Reviewed August 8, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.
